I have been using Sweet Home 3D on previous versions of Ubuntu and was pleased to find the program in the Ubuntu Software Center. Unfortunately i don't seem to get the program to work. It crashes directly after starting without any reports. I'm using a clean install of Ubuntu.

Don't use the version in Ubuntu Software Center, because it depends on Java 8 which causes some problems in Sweet Home 3D as soon as you use some textures. Simply use the installer version available at Download page.If you want an icon for Sweet Home 3D + file association in your system, please read this thread.
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D developer

Emmanuel,Thanks for the quick response. I've downloaded the installer, but it gives the same result. For a brief moment i see the program start before it immediately disappears. Again no error reports.What am i doing wrong?

I am using linux for the past 10 years mainly ubuntu or one of its derivatives. I had the same problem with Xubuntu 16.04. I am using the SweetHome3D 5.2.tgz downloaded from Sweethome 3D website and uncompress it in a local folder. after running the executable file named “SweetHome3D” in a terminal (double clicking doesn't execute it) the application crashes and I get this messageJava 3D: implicit antialiasing enabled## A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:## SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f5e3a996b6d, pid=5813, tid=140042699675392## JRE version: 6.0_45-b06# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (20.45-b01 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)# Problematic frame:# C [r600_dri.so+0x1f4b6d] __driDriverGetExtensions_virtio_gpu+0x1590bd## An error report file with more information is saved as:# /media/lino/Shehata/Soft/Design and multimedia/SweetHome3D-5.2/hs_err_pid5813.log## If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp#Aborted (core dumped)

Initially I thought the problem could be a result of the open source radeon driver as ubuntu 16.04 doesn’t support the proprietary ATI driver (FGLRX), therefore I installed Xubuntu 14.04 and running the application was successful but when I tried to go to the preferences from the “File Menu” the application crashes again (I need to change the measure units from feets to meters). The same problem happened on openSuse leap 41 and Debian Jessie. Finally I installed Fedora 24 but again I was not able to change the preferences on the regular Gnome session but when I ran the SH3D in “Gnome on Wayland” session and the SH3D worked without troubles (I was able to change the preferences).

I am not a programmer, just a linux user but I think there is problem with the Xorg display server on the new linux distributions.

Hi, I have also used this program with prior versions of Ubuntu. I was working fine on 14.04, and decided to upgrade to 16.04LTS. It works fine, and when I used the software installer provided by Ubuntu, it says it worked fine. However, when I try to use it, it opens for a moment, then closes, without an error that would get someone to fix. The replies I see here don't help much. Trust me, it is NOT my fault. I would like some real help and advice.

Hi, I tried the "version from http://www.getdeb.net/ as well." method... Confusing, as usual the instructions are 'terse'...

However, I did get SweetHome3d installed. After the install of 'getdeb', I did the sudo apt-get update, followed by sudo apt-get upgrade, and it noted it wanted to install SweetHome3D. Yippeee.. However... once it finished, I saw the icon for SH3D on the left, and clicked on it. The panel opened. I tried to push the open file icon so I can get my previous work, and it did not respond. After a few more seconds, the program shut down, no errors I could see. During the install I did get an error related to a problem I have reported to Launchpad... #1573790 package xine-ui 0.99.9-1.2 [modified: var/lib/xine/xine.desktop] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139xine-ui (Ubuntu) [[ It has been almost a month and still not fixed. Is this related to SH3D?